Greek Myth Trivia

1. The first mythical Greek tells you, "I gave Daddy a massive headache!"

From Quiz Greek Mythical Masquerade Mixer 9 for 10

Answer: Athena

Legend has it that Zeus impregnated Metis and then decided to eat her. If that doesn't sound weird enough, soon after, Zeus is complaining of a headache, and low and behold Athena pops out of his head as a full adult! Yeah, that makes sense, right? The other popular myth is that she has no mother at all and just popped out of Zeus' head. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and war. I didn't realize those two topics went together...but they do for the ancient Greeks!

From Quiz 9 for 10 - Greek Myth

Answer: Cronus

Cronus was jealous of Uranus' power as ruler of the universe. Uranus had alienated his wife Gaia by hiding away their children, whom he could not abide, deep inside the earth. It was Gaia who constructed the stone sickle with which Cronus castrated his father. In the fullness of time, Cronus was in turn overthrown by his son Zeus.

From Quiz Legendary Creatures of Greek Mythology

Answer: Charybdis

Charybdis was the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia; in some myths Scylla was her sister. They both occupied a narrow strait; if sailors were to avoid Charybdis, they still had to get past Scylla, which could prove a difficult task!

From Quiz Meet the Minotaur

Answer: The Cretan Bull

When the beautiful, white Cretan Bull came to Minos from the sea, it was seen as a sign of favour and Minos was awarded sovereignty.

From Quiz Greek Spirits

Answer: Eros

Eros is the god of desire, and of course, is the source of the word erotic. There are conflicting stories about the origins of Eros. Some sources say he was primordial, one of the original gods, while other sources state he is the son of Aphrodite. The most famous story about Eros involves Psyche, the most beautiful woman in the world, and their rocky path to love. In Roman mythology, Eros is known as Cupid.

From Quiz 9 for 10 Greek Mythological Figures

Answer: Artemis

The goddess of the hunt, Artemis, is the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Diana. Among her many feats is supposedly helping her mother give birth to her own twin brother Apollo!

From Quiz Getting to Know Greek Mythology

Answer: Jealousy

Most stories describe Hera as vengeful and jealous. One of her more well known stories is when she mercilessly pursued Hercules and made completing his tasks even more difficult.

From Quiz Think You Know Greek Mythology?

Answer: Eurydice

When Orpheus' wife, Eurydice, died as a result of a snake bite, Orpheus used his musical talent to charm Hades and Persephone into giving him back Eurydice.

From Quiz Greek Mythology 101

Answer: Iris

Iris is not recognized as much as Hermes for being a messenger. Iris is also considered as the rainbow goddess.

From Quiz Miscellaneous Myths

Answer: Zeus

Zeus is the ruler of the sky and rain. He is the ruler of Mount Olympus and the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea. Zeus had many affairs as well as a number of wives, but once he fell in love with Hera, she became his permanent wife, who avenged herself his many subsequent affairs by punishing the poor women.

From Quiz Greek Mythology

Answer: Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses, was the Titaness of Memory, there are few legends about Mnemosyne. The Muses, her daughters, were the spirits or goddesses of literature and the arts.

From Quiz Ten Myths from Ancient Greece

Answer: Icarius, an Athenean aristocrat, father of Erigone

During Pandion's reign, Dionysus visited Attica and became a good friend of Icarius, who was cordial towards the God and gave him residence. Icarius learned from Dionysus all the secrets of viticulture and the making of wine, which he started teaching to the Atheneans. During that visit the Wine God had a love affair with Icarius' daughter, Erigone, and gave her a son, Staphylus. Unfortunately Erigone had a very tragic end. Dionysus had given Icarius some pretty strong wine as a gift. When Icarius tasted it he liked it so much that he immediately went out to the fields with his chariot to share it with his shepherds. They all drank from it, became very intoxicated and passed out. When they woke up, they thought that Icarius had tried to poison them, so they hunted him down and killed him. Icarius' dog alerted Erigone and led her to her father's unburied corpse. Erigone, devastated, buried her father and then hanged herself from a tree, above his grave.

From Quiz Creatures of Greek Mythology

Answer: Cerberus

Cerberus was a three headed dog with a snake for a tail. Heracles wrestled him into submission in his 12th and last Labor which was to capture Cerberus.

From Quiz Mythological ABC's

Answer: Agave

Pentheus was the king of Thebes and son of Agave and Echion. When he refused to recognize the divinity of his cousin Dionysus, the angry god sent a fit of madness to his mother Agave and her sisters Ino and Autonoe, so that they thought Pentheus a wild boar and tore him limb from limb. A similar fate was later to befall Autonoe's son Actaeon by the hand of Artemis. Alcippe was a daughter of Ares who was raped by Poseidon's son Halirrhothius. Alecto was one of the Furies, along with Megaera and Tisiphone. Arethusa was a wood-nymph who was pursued by the river-god Alpheus and turned into a spring.

From Quiz Lesser Known Characters of Mythology

Answer: Pygmalion

Pygmalion made a statue of a woman and fell in love with it. He prayed to Aphrodite to bring her to life.

From Quiz Operatic Greek Myth

Answer: Eurydice

Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) composed the opera "Euridice" in 1600. It didn't get the success Monteverdi obtained with his opera "Orfeo" (1607). Other composers that have treated the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice are Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787), Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) and Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Thalia, Euphrosyne and Aglaia are the three Graces: daughters of Zeus who symbolise aspects of beauty. When Eurydice died, Orpheus went to hell to get her back. His music convinced Hades to give Eurydice back, on the condition that he would never look back. Sadly enough he did, losing his wife thus for the second time.

From Quiz A Greek Mythology Quiz on a Variety of Subjects

Answer: Eurydice

There were many other characters who shared her name. One was the wife of Orpheus, another was the wife of Nestor.

From Quiz Greek Mythology

Answer: The Furies

When Cronus castrated his father Uranus, his blood fell on the mountains that were just created from mother-earth, Gaia. Out of Uranus' blood, the Furies were born. So we can say that the Furies are the children of Uranus and Gaia.

From Quiz Greek Mythology

Answer: Hestia & Vesta

Hestia was the goddess of the hearth. Each city in Ancient Greece or Rome would have a central fire in its temple to Hestia (Vesta in Latin).

From Quiz Who's Who Of Ancient Greece

Answer: Dionysus & Dionysos

Dionysus, the lord of drunkenness, did not respect any law and was said to have made his followers vulgar, teaching them to drink wine. His Roman counterpart was Bacchus.

From Quiz What Do You Know About Greek Mythology?

Answer: The Titans

Uranus, also known as the sky and the heavens, came down to Mother Earth, who was known at the time as Gaea, and they gave birth to the first living beings, the Titans. There were six of them.

From Quiz Awesome Greek Mythology

Answer: Titans

The Titans, not to be confused with the football team, were as tall as trees and very beautiful. Many played important roles in protecting the earth.

From Quiz Greek Mythology: Little Known people!

Answer: Golden Apples

Abandoned at birth by a father who wanted a son, Atalanta became a great heroine and one of the Argonauts. Unwilling to marry, she finally consented to wed any man who could beat her at a foot race. Such was her fleetness that she would have remained happily single, but the Goddess of Love gave one of her suitors golden apples to scatter on the race course. These were magical, and Atalanta could not resist them. Stooping to gather them in, she lost the contest to her destined husband.

From Quiz Greek Myth Quiz

Answer: Prometheus & Epimetheus, Athena

Prometheus and Epimetheus were spared imprisonment in Tartarus because they had not fought with their fellow Titans during the war with the Olympians. They were given the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into his clay figure. Prometheus had assigned Epimetheus the task of giving the creatures of the earth their various qualities, such as swiftness, cunning, strength, fur, wings. Unfortunately, by the time he got to man Epimetheus had given all the good qualities out and there were none left for man. So Prometheus decided to make man stand upright as the gods did and to give him fire.

From Quiz Greek General Mythology

Answer: Memory

The Muses were the offspring of her and Zeus. They, the Muses, were originally thought to be only three: Melete ('Practice'), Mneme ('Memory') and Aeode ('Song'). Or, as those at Delphi would have it, Nete, Mese and Hypate - the top, middle and bottom strings of a lyre.

From Quiz Greek & Roman Myths: How Much Do You Know?

Answer: Look back at her

When Orpheus had just stepped out into the sunlight he looked back at Eurydice to make sure she was there but it was too soon, she was still in the cavern. Orpheus grabbed for her as she began to return into the darkness but instantly she was gone. All Orpheus heard was one faint word "Farewell" This story is very sad but it is worth reading if you haven't yet. It is the metaphor of samsara, found in Asian texts as well, illustrating the point if you have any attachments to the material world, death and suffering will follow you even from the Underworld.

From Quiz Greek Mythology

Answer: Ambrosia & nectar

The gods ate Ambrosia along with the drink Nectar; it makes you immortal!

From Quiz Greek Mythology II

Answer: Nereids & nereids

The Nereids were the nymphs of the sea.

From Quiz Greek Mythology I

Answer: Bellerophon

After killing the Chimaera, Bellerophon attempted to fly to the heavens on Pegasus' back, but was thrown off, when a gladfly - sent by Zeus - stung the winged-steed.

From Quiz Mythologia 4

Answer: It made her ugly.

Aphrodite and Hera made fun of her when they saw her cheeks puffed out and called her ugly. Athena threw it away and cursed whoever play it again.

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